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  • The use of mandatory minimums effectively vests prosecutors with powerful sentencing discretion. The prosecutor controls the decision to charge a person with a mandatory-eligible crime

    Wrong problem. Minimums and maximums are a bad workaround for this.

    Obviously the prosecutor should not be the only person who can decide which crime to charge, or not to charge, and this decision should not be possible only at the beginning of the proceedings.

    In our country the judge can easilly change the exact crime(s), and this is done very often, because it makes everybody's life easier and the truth is served much better when this decision is made again after all evidence, witnesses etc. have been seen and heard.

  • Minimums help the judges not only to decide the punishment, also to see in advance which crime is worse than the other crime. Maximums could maybe help in a similar way.

    Maximums are needed when stark punishments exist, like torture, death penalty or removing of body parts. These can be limited to specific crimes then.

  • I still have a phone containing Google, and cannot change this situation (maybe with my next phone). Usually, I switch off location services very often and I avoid such tracking apps because all my data goes to Google then.

    Would it be advisable to use this at all before I get rid of Google?